If Brighter Than A Thousand Suns is the shit your pants "they pulled that out?" song, my tickets are going on Craigslist.

If you espect a "shit your pants - they pulled that out?" song, you're pretty much setting yourself up for disappointment. At most, I'd expect one big surprise that's not off a reunion album for this tour. I'd look at my prediction setlist on page 1 to see what I mean.

Iron Maiden:
01.The Wicker Man
02.The Evil That Men Do
03.The Trooper
04.Wasted Years
---bruce bit----
05.El Dorado
06.Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
07.Brave New World
08.22 Acacia Avenue
09.No More lies
10.Paschendale
11.Run to the Hills
12.Fear of the Dark
13.Iron Maiden
Encore:
14.Number of the Beast
15.Phantom of the Opera
16.Hallowed Be Thy Name

We'll see how I do.

What do you have to work with that you're basing those predictions off of?

What do you have to work with that you're basing those predictions off of?

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Originally Posted by SomewhereInTime72

Experience with Maiden's tendencies?

This. Aside from the confirmation of "El Dorado" and "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" - logic suggests that the band would never not play Iron Maiden, Fear of the Dark, and Hallowed Be Thy Name on any tour, and never not play Number of the Beast, Run to the Hills, and The Trooper on a "Hits" Tour. So that's 8 out of 16 probable songs right there. Then I threw in a few other highly likely songs based on Maiden history (The Evil That Men Do, Wasted Years), 2 songs based on somewhat wishful thinking (Phantom of the Opera, 22 Acacia Avenue), and 4 other reunion songs based on the probability of this set including a good chunk of them (The Wicker Man, Brave New World, No More lies, and Paschendale). I then just arranged them in a logical order. I probably should've included "2 Minutes to Midnight", odds are they'll do that.

And Dream Theater's set is based on Portnoy's claim that it's aiming to be a heavy and accessible set. Which means heavy songs, relatively straight-forward, and nothing over 8-ish minutes. "A Rite of Passage", "As I Am", and "Pull Me Under" seem like no-brainers, and the other tunes are just songs I see quite probable.

Not that I particularly want them to skip it again, it's a really good live song. Chances are if they skip it there'd a be a song in the set that's not as awesome as it . The exception to this being that they should have omitted it on the SBIT tour in favor of more SIT material .

I for one will be very surprise if they play Wasted Years again on this tour. I wish they'd do Phantom & 22 but that's not likely to hapen. They will probably pull one out of the left field like they did with Moonchild on the last tour, my money is on Be Quick Or Be Dead, just gut feeling.